Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?